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Venting about the day…

2009-12-10Where in the world am I today?: North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Crazy busy day today… Actually today was so busy that it quickly became tomorrow which is Friday which is actually the day I’m sitting at my keyboard writing this… Still in the interests of maintaining my daily blog posts based on some misguided sense of maintaining control (what a joke) over the universe I’ve created in this little corner of the internet, I’m back-dating the post to yesterday and will get a second one up on Friday which will follow the standard Friday Interview deal-y.

Anyway… Ya gotta vent sometimes…

The day was made busy with a number of things a mini show at the Head Offices of the Canadian Tourism Commission, a video shoot for a guy I met at the Creative Mix conference, pick up of my 2010 trading cards from the printer (they look great!), ongoing challenges with what to do to sort out my microphone challenges, scrabbling to get things in place for the annual Christmas Card Project which included trips to Canadian Tire, Staples, Michaels, and lots and lots and lots of printing…

Oh… A word about printing… If you’ve got a color laser printer and it’s a model that can handle printing onto card stock it’s great, but if you do any kind of volume of printing the rollers in the printer will heat up and the toner won’t saturate into the paper properly – the toner ends up flaking off and looking like crap. Short runs are OK, but for anything over about 10 or 20 copies, you’re likely better off to take the job down to the print centre at your local Staples or Office Depot or some such… Wrestled with that issue for a good chunk of the day… GRRRrrrrrr…

The show for the CTC was funny because much like the concept of accountability I posted about yesterday, the CTC is a government run organization and it was like walking on egg shells anytime people thought that something I was doing could possibly be taken the wrong way… Political Correctness to the a degree the likes had me enjoying messing with people’s heads a bit… Nothing too over the top as my show doesn’t push the limits that much anyway, but I chuckled to myself when I dropped a couple of innuendo sort of jokes that raised a few eyebrows… The guy who invited me was very pleased with the performance and I think he too enjoyed shaking things up in that office a little bit.

Oh.. And of course I had to pack because tomorrow (which is actually today) I head to the Airport and start the long journey to join the GRAND Princess in Brazil…

Got all of the packing done and ended up staying up until about 4:00 am working on the Christmas Card list and figuring out exactly who to send things too… Even staying up that late I didn’t quite get everything done and left three specific tasks standing by to do on my way to the airport in the morning…

So Thursday became Friday and Friday is quickly turning into a blur too… Hopefully I’ll be able to get some sleep on the plane…

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